LGENL.XC Legal & General Group PLC

Financial Services · Asset Management

1 · Weak Momentum 6.0 · Neutral Watch 15y streak

2.98

-1.05%

About the company

Legal & General Group Plc provides various insurance products and services in the United Kingdom, the United States, and internationally. It operates through Institutional Retirement, Asset Management, Insurance, and Retail Retirement segments. The Institutional Retirement segment offers annuity contracts with guaranteed income for a specified time; longevity insurance products; and writes assured payment policies (APP). The Asset Management segment provides unit linked institutional pensions, segregated investment management mandates, and collective investment schemes; index fund management; pooled and segregated active fixed income funds; active equity management; solutions for cash management requirements for institutional investors; solutions and liability driven investment; multi-asset funds; private markets strategies for physical real estate, private corporate debts, infrastructure debts, and real estate loans; and direct investment services. The Retail Retirement segment offers protection products, such as health, disability, critical illness, and accident; annuities; lifetime mortgages; lifetime care plans; retirement interest only mortgages; and workplace and retail savings scheme that provides corporate pension scheme solutions. Legal & General Group Plc was founded in 1836 and is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom.

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16.8B

27.09

0.11

2.66

52-week range

2.98

low 2.29 high 3.18

Dividend deep dive

Legal & General Group PLC, operating in the Asset Management industry within the Financial Services sector, currently offers a dividend yield of 7.4%. This yield is below its 5-year average of 7.96%, but remains within its 5-year yield band, which ranges from a low of 6.52% to a high of 8.79%. The company's dividend safety is assessed as "at_risk" based on available data.

Dividend history

Legal & General Group PLC has demonstrated consistency in its dividend payments, with a streak of 15 consecutive years of dividend increases, earning it a "contender" status in the CCC list. The 3-year dividend compound annual growth rate (CAGR) is 4.71%, while the 5-year CAGR stands at 4.10%. Recent annual dividends per share, paid semi-annually in April and August, include 17.82p in 2021, 18.71p in 2022, and 19.64p in 2023. A 20.63p dividend is expected for 2024, followed by 21.48p in 2025.

Dividend safety

The dividend safety for Legal & General Group PLC is currently classified as "at_risk." This assessment is largely influenced by a high payout ratio of 275.0%, indicating that the dividend significantly exceeds the reported earnings per…

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AI-generated from Quantic's dividend data · Updated 17 Jul 2026 · Information, not financial advice.